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writercises2017-01-24 04:18 pm
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EXERCISE: The People Who Live in Boxes?
Original Posting March 22, 2016
Here you go. Take a set of characters, and have them deal with their home being taken away, by a forced move. Maybe the landlord has decided that the apartments are going to go condo, or the government has chosen to put a road through right here, or something or other has come up. Your protagonists have a month, more or less, at your choice, to pack up and move.
Do they pick up stacks of boxes at the grocery, and pack, and pack, and pack? Consider having them digging through the stuff that's been stacked in the closet, and what hidden memories and treasures do they encounter there? What goes in the boxes, and what goes in the trash?
What do they do with those old VCR tapes of the Brady Bunch? How about 45 RPM records? Or what about all those ancient photographs of people that they don't quite recognize in some cases?
Anyway, have your protagonists pack up and move. With all the regrets, the memories, and the piles and piles of boxes.
Just one of those changes that life brings us. Write about it!
tink
Here you go. Take a set of characters, and have them deal with their home being taken away, by a forced move. Maybe the landlord has decided that the apartments are going to go condo, or the government has chosen to put a road through right here, or something or other has come up. Your protagonists have a month, more or less, at your choice, to pack up and move.
Do they pick up stacks of boxes at the grocery, and pack, and pack, and pack? Consider having them digging through the stuff that's been stacked in the closet, and what hidden memories and treasures do they encounter there? What goes in the boxes, and what goes in the trash?
What do they do with those old VCR tapes of the Brady Bunch? How about 45 RPM records? Or what about all those ancient photographs of people that they don't quite recognize in some cases?
Anyway, have your protagonists pack up and move. With all the regrets, the memories, and the piles and piles of boxes.
Just one of those changes that life brings us. Write about it!
tink